Today's Little Ditty

A GRAND VIEW Sticky fingerprints A sweet reminder of you Window to my heart © 2018 Janie Lazo. All rights reserved. Click HERE ...

TAMERA WILL WISSINGER Tamera Will Wissinger was one of our first spotlight authors in 2014. We featured her picture book This...

GRANDMA'S DITTIES In the history of ditties there’s none so silly as those Grandma knows from when she was young. Like…..      Tap ...

CONVERSATIONS WITH MY TEENAGE BOY What did you do in school today? Nothing. What’s wrong son? Nothing. How was the play? Nothing to wr...

A LITTLE NOTHING “I’d like a little nothing”, my father said to me. The nothing that he wanted was impossible to see. Not animal, nor ...

LULU BELL My new sisters name? Why, it's LuLu Bell. No, that's really the cat, but, be quiet, don't tell. Things were goin...

Turnabout is Fair Play “Not fair!” I was telling my mother, “I love him, but he loves another.”      Then, as they were wed,      I tur...

There are consequences for our actions... and few childhood pastimes drive that lesson home  like playing hairdresser. Who else...

Welcome to Miniature Golf Week at Today's Little Ditty!  Didn't know it was Miniature Golf Week?  Neither did I until Laura Shov...

Where I grew up, in Westchester County, New York, school began after Labor Day (otherwise known as the day we put away the white pants). ...

"The cure for anything is salt water-- tears, sweat, or the sea."  -Isak Dinesen Having recently returned from a wonderful w...

In honor of Father's Day, I have a special guest on Today's Little Ditty-- my dear ol' dad.  I'm so grateful for the relatio...

This week marks the peak of the end-of-school-year crazies, jam-packed with final projects, field trips, parties, performances, ceremonies.....

Today's little ditty is for all the mothers out there, and dedicated, with love, to my own. Mom She cooks the roast And ...

Welcome to Haiku Garden— a place to ponder some of poetry's littlest ditties, planted with love for our reading pleasure.  This ...